![]() Their physical manner when they came back from the Princeton mixer wasn’t that of a son taking care of his drunken mother, but of a romantic couple returning from an exciting night on the town. They’re too close, not only in age, but in every way they interact. As Eli pointed out, and as we’ve seen and heard over and over again, something isn’t right with these two. Jimmy and Gillian’s sex by train light is the kind of thing that could have played out as cheap shock value on some other shows(*), but “Boardwalk Empire” has been building to this for a long time. Van Alden has committed various sins, big and small, over these two seasons, and though he’s tried recently to live more cleanly (giving his Nucky files to Esther Randolph, signing Rose’s divorce petition, even turning down Mickey’s offer of a huge score from Capone and the others), the killing of Agent Sepso is too big to be ignored, and Nucky’s friendship with the African-American community sends Deacon Cuffey into the post office, and Van Alden on the run as a disgraced fugitive.Īnd in the storyline that I imagine everyone will want to talk about today, we learn that Jimmy has some serious sin of his own – that in a moment of drunk, tired weakness, he didn’t resist when Gillian seduced him back in college – and he’s been paying for it ever since. Every time it appears he’s figured a way out of this legal mess, he only sinks deeper, now with Margaret – with whom he’s been far, far more candid than the average gangster (of the ’20s or any other era) would usually be with his special lady friend – contemplating the idea of testifying against him as a way to unburden her soul and spare Emily any more pain. Where Nucky has, for a long time, been able to talk, bribe or otherwise maneuver his way out of paying for his sins for a long time, now he seems trapped in quicksand. But the episode itself sure suggests that “Boardwalk Empire” itself has recently come to believe in the idea of terrible justice rained down from on high – and that some sins can’t be escaped, no matter how hard you try. ![]() Nucky and Margaret spend much of “Under God’s Power, She Flourishes” debating whether Emily’s polio is divine retribution for their various sins, or if it’s simply a terrible coincidence. There’s nothing wrong with any of it.” -Gillian A review of last night’s “Boardwalk Empire” coming up just as soon as I don’t like the way you loom…
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